Presenting the next collaboration between Playtoy HK, Shaw Brothers & Unbox..THE MIGHTY PEKING MAN!
The Mighty Peking Man was released in 1977 as an attempted cash in on the KING KONG craze borne from the 1976 Hollywood movie starring Jeff Bridges & Jessica Lang.
Mighty Peking Man took giant simian movies to a whole other level with it’s great pace, man in suit effects and celluloid gaudiness. A true midnight movie classic!
The identity of today’s artists has developed over the past century into a highly condensed tautology – artists are in who makes art. At Hill’s hand, the artist’s hand transforms any suitable subject or material into a work worthy of creative contemplation.
Attention Economy reveals a turn inwards in Hills practice. During the 26-day exhibition, Hill presents two unpublished drawings in DIN A4 format each day. In doing so, the artist focuses on a selection of contemporary reflections and ideas, which she presents in turn on a specially made podium, allowing careful study. In Hill’s typical drawing style, the drawings, which are reminiscent of loose notebook pages, deal with honors – literature, cultural heritage, politics, memory – as well as profane themes – radio commentaries, interpersonal negotiations, housework, Netflix oversupply.
Opposite – Small Business Chromatic Contemplations (2), 2013
Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2019
Galerie EIGEN + ART
Spinnereistraße 7. Halle 5
04179 Leipzig
Germany
Abraham Cruzvillegas (b.1968, Mexico City) presents a set of sculptures that explore the various themes, techniques and materials that come to embody his artistic inquiries. Cruzvillegas’ new project sees the artist producing a hanging garden that works at the direct intersection of three core components, identity, collaboration and material re-appropriation. Cruzvillegas’ exhibition examines the creative synergy and potential that is at stake within this triangulation, and the chaotically delicate lines that separate these.
Identity construction is a focal point in Cruzvillegas’s explorations and run throughout the artist’s new presentation at kurimanzutto. The artist takes his own and his family’s biography as reference points, producing sculptures and combining natural life that express his preoccupation with origin, sociability, resilience, and the creativity of individual peoples within the context of their built communities.
Opposite – Escultura pendiente 1, 2019
Exhibition runs through to March 16th, 2019
Kurimanzutto
gob. Rafael Rebollar 94 San Miguel Chapultepec
d.f. 11850 Mexico City
Mexico
Incorporating landscape, portraiture and abstraction, the exhibition will demonstrate Callahan’s deeply personal response to his own life. His wife, daughter, and the streets, buildings and landscape of the cities he called home, were all re-occurring subjects of his work. Within his diverse subject matter, he established a singular aesthetic with a drive for experimentation which has had a lasting influence on post-war photography.
The exhibition will focus on works from the first two decades of Callahan’s career, from the early 1940s until the late 1950s, when he was based in Chicago. Callahan met Hungarian painter and photographer, László Moholy-Nagy in 1946, and went on to join the faculty of the New Bauhaus school that Moholy-Nagy had established in the city. The significance of this is evident in Callahan’s photographs from the 1940s which share the principles of Bauhaus design and experimentation. Much of his work from this period explores both total abstraction and the technicalities of the photographic medium, including use of double and triple exposures, blurs, extreme contrasts and collage.
Opposite – Eleanor, Chicago, 1949
Exhibition runs through to April 6th, 2019
Huxley-Parlour Gallery
3-5 Swallow Street
London
W1B 4DE
Spanish based Roll Dann delivers his second Soma release, the bold and enigmatic Secrets EP. Following on from his first release, Roll Dann keeps things firmly focused on the dance floor maintaining power and a firm flow of direction.
Lexeme opens the EP with intense and forceful percussive elements that build gradually but subtly along side droning synth hooks. Deep Breathe delivers more on groove yet keep the hypnotic and driving elements Roll Dann is known for. Secret wastes no time is delving head first into pounding, relentless rhythmics structures but gradually opens into the more melodic of the EP’s tracks. The Fist closes the EP with yet more haunting and caustic rhythms, Roll Dann uses the builds and drops to superb degree to yet again drive home is unique brand of Techno.
TweetOverkill and Puma link up to release the Overkill x Puma CELL Venom Radiant Venom. The modified CELL Venom is inspired by conspiracy theories surrounding Y2K. The retailer shares the fictional tale of Berlin’s aftermath following a computer failure on New Year’s Eve which led to all nuclear missiles being launched on the planet and skipping ahead to the year 19100.
Overkill takes the PUMA CELL Venom and applies a mix of blue, toxic neon yellow and white throughout its layered upper. In addition, the combination of suede, mesh and smooth leather are also spread throughout the sneaker’s base. Lastly, reflective hits join the collaboration alongside Overkill insignias on the lateral and medial sides.
The Overkill PUMA CELL Venom “Radiant Venom” will drop in-store and online on March 29th.
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